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Saturday 15th October 2005
Queensgate, Bridlington
Bridlington Town 3 Goole 1
With the F.A. Trophy dominating the day’s fixtures, this was the only
Unibond League game to go ahead in either division, and a must-win for Town
if they were to keep on the coat-tails of the leaders. The bumper crowd of
311 need not have worried. Town ran the show from start to finish against
their bitter rivals and apart from a twice-taken penalty in the first half,
the visitors offered little threat to an impressive home side.
Goole outlined their intentions in the very first minute, as Town winger
Chris Hyam was caught by a crunching tackle by Adam Walker as he made ground
down the right flank. Hyam responded to treatment, and was involved again
in
the 6th minute, as his header from a Matt Fyvie cross tested ex-Town keeper
Chris Hill for the first time. Town were taking the game to the visitors,
and Paul Wilson embarked on a mazy run in the 10th minute, cutting in from
the left wing and going through three challenges to drive in a low shot that
Hill turned away. Steve Heath came up from the back for the resulting
corner, and perhaps should have scored the opener for Town. Fyvie expertly
chested the ball into the big centre-half’s path 10 yards out, but he
may
not have had enough time to shape himself properly for the shot, and drove
the ball over the bar.
A rampant home side poured forward again, and such was Town’s dominance
at
this stage, Heath’s fellow centre-half, Lee Harper, was also able to
join
the attack, the pair combining on the edge of the Goole 18-yard box for
Harper to unleash an acrobatic volley which flew over the bar. Hyam was a
constant thorn in the visitor’s side down the right, and his partnership
with right-back Carl Giblin against a pedestrian defence was causing all
manner of problems. On the half-hour mark, with Town somehow not having
taken the lead, another move through midfield involving Martin Thacker and
Shaun Baker released Paul Palmer who drove in a low shot that Hill again had
to beat away.
Goole earned their first corner on 32 minutes, as a speculative long ball
saw Graeme Whitehead take on Wayne Lewis, who did well to stretch and turn
the ball behind. Town ‘keeper Nick Baxter did well to pluck the incoming
ball off the head of Steve Davey as the visitors got numbers into the Town
box.
The home fans were silenced on 38 minutes by a sucker punch. Nigel Danby
broke up a Town attack on the edge of his own box, and his clearance
released Steve Davey, who got in behind Harper and clear on goal. Baxter
raced from his line but clearly fouled the striker in trying to push the
ball away and the referee correctly pointed to the spot. Ben Eastwood’s
spot kick was brilliantly stopped by the Town ‘keeper, but the referee
crushed the Brid celebrations by insisting that Baxter had moved off his
line. Eastwood made no mistake with the re-take, sending it low into the
right hand corner.
Half-time Bridlington Town 0 Goole 1
Goole could have put the game to bed immediately from the restart. Dale
Rimington fed a diagonal through ball to Davey, who galloped clear of the
Town rearguard and struck a fierce shot towards the top left hand corner
which looked a goal all the way. Baxter however showed why Town fans rate
him as the best in the league with a stunning leaping save to somehow push
the ball away and keep his side in the match. Town were inspired by this,
and quickly found their attacking rhythm again. They broke down the right
in the 49th minute, and the ball into the box from Wilson was not dealt with
by the Goole defence. In the ensuing scramble, Palmer found space to turn
and sidefoot past Hill into the far corner for the equaliser.
Roared on by the home crowd, Town went for the jugular. Manager Billy Heath
replaced Lewis with the pace of Ben Sherwood down the left, and he got among
the tiring Goole defence immediately. A simply magnificent second goal from
Palmer gave his side the lead after 54 minutes. Matt Fyvie had won a
muscular challenge against Danby 30 yards out. Again his lay off was
perfect, and from this Palmer took the ball on, set himself , and sent a
dipping half-volley arrowing over Hill and into the net for a goal of the
season contender.
Sherwood was now linking well with Wilson as Town threatened along both
flanks. The tigerish Sherwood won what seemed a lost cause against Dave
Watts, and his ball into the Goole box was headed inches wide by Fyvie.
Heath made more changes, Hyam being replaced by Steve Underwood, working his
way back into the side after suspension. Then minutes later, Andy Neill
entered the fray for the tiring Matt Fyvie, both players receiving rapturous
applause. Heath has good options in the two young strikers, and at last
Palmer has genuine class alongside him in the attack
With Fyvie scoring his first goal last week, it was now Neill’s turn
to make
an impact, and the big man did not disappoint. He pulled Danby this way and
that in Town’s next attack, and was unlucky not to set Palmer free with
his
lay-off. Queensgate then erupted on 86 minutes. Palmer again did the hard
work against the imposing Jim Gore, winning a vital flick on to set Neill
free in the box. With the home fans holding their breath, he took a touch
and rolled the ball past a static Hill into the left corner. The striker
raced to the home bench with the rest of his team in his wake and leaped
into Heath’s arms. His colleagues caught up, and the technical area
descended into chaos amid wild celebration.
A fantastic three points for Town, who go into a tricky midweek fixture at
Eastwood this Tuesday in the best possible heart. From an uncertain start
to the season, and the wreckage of the Mossley game, a new and determined
side has emerged that has now won four out of it’s last five games. Town
take on Chorley this Saturday at Queensgate, and will hope that this
performance will attract another healthy gate.
Teams
Brid Town
Baxter, Giblin, Wilson, Baker, Harper, Heath, Hyam, Thacker, Fyvie, Palmer,
Lewis
Subs. Sherwood, Underwood, Neill.
Goole
Hill, Watts, Willoughby, Gore, Constable, Danby, Rimington, Davey, Eastwood,
Whitehead, Walker.
Subs. Rollinson, Donaldson, Gorman.